Uncommon Commentary #223: A Tirade Against Tiresome Attire

I have previously opined about the slovenly and often provocative way in which people now dress, but here I want to address the specific issue of appareling oneself thus even to attend church.  It's unlikely that anyone who received an invitation to Windsor Palace would have such poor taste as to show up at the affair in something like blue jeans or a halter top; and if we want to look our best to be in the presence of an earthly monarch, how much more so ought we to clothe ourselves respectfully to go the house of the King of Kings?

Uncommon Commentary #222: What They Should Occupy Is Prison

Isn't it ironic that leftists who condemned TEA party rallies for "racism," despite having no evidence whatsoever to support the allegation, turn a blind eye to the documented anti-Semitism in the "Occupy" protests?

Uncommon Commentary #221: A Strongman and a Weak Claim

President Obombast and his administration (though repeating the mantra "Gaddafi must go") maintained that US intervention in the Libyan civil war was an "humanitarian" mission intended to protect civilians, not to bring about the fall of the Gaddafi regime, which anyway, had already taken place weeks before the strongman's demise.  Furthermore, Gaddafi, though no less repellent than when this object of Islamist hatred was an enemy of the USA, served as an ally of ours in the fight versus jihadists (just as the monster Stalin did in that against Hitler's Germany); see the final two paragraphs of The "Arab Spring" Spews Blood.  How, then, can anyone who hasn't been living on some other planet for the past decade characterize his capture and death as a US "foreign-policy victory?"

Uncommon Commentary #220: Tehran, Iran, We All Ran When Ahmadinejad Got Atomic Weapons

Why did Iran think that it could get away with plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the USA, and to blow up the Saudi Arabian and Israeli embassies, all in our capital?  Probably because it can.  If we won't take effective action to prevent Iran from developing nuclear arms, neither will we do so to punish that country for scheming to kill foreigners.

Uncommon Commentary #219: Trite Makes Right? Not at My Site

The following are the catchphrases that currently annoy me the most (in no particular order). I forbid visitors to the Doman Domain to use these clichés under any circumstances.

1. game-changer
2. sea change
3. game [sic] the system
4. endgame [sic]
5. 24/7
6. 9/11
7. Ground Zero
8. cutting-edge
9. high-tech [sic]
10. hi(gh)-def [sic]
11. high-res [sic]
12. state-of-the-art
13. brutal(ly) murder(ed)
14. carbon footprint
15. wake-up call
16. heads up
17. food for thought
18. the brink
19. _ community
20. -friendly
21. -bashing
22. (multi)cultural diversity
23. multi-task
24. max out
25. e-
26. bio-
27. Euro-
28. mega-
29. -gate
30. -cam
31. zero tolerance
32. here goes nothing
33. walk the walk (and talk the talk)
34. next level
35. next generation
36. extreme (sports, &c.)
37. Got _?
38. got game
39. over the top
40. A-list
41. perfect storm
42. go big
43. go viral
44. demonize
45. marginalize
46. empower
47. Red Zone
48. comfort zone
49. new normal
50. nonstarter [sic]
51. no-brainer
52. fail [used as a noun]
53. leverage [used as a verb]
54. partner [used as a verb]
55. dialogue [used as a verb]
56. app [sic]
57. it's not a question of "if"; it's a question of "when"
58. moral compass
59. the elephant in the room
60. both sides of the aisle
61. off the charts
62. bucket list
63. so [followed by a noun]
64. fracking [sic]
65. flash mob
66. robo-call [sic]
67. boots on the ground
68. at the end of the day
69. _Care [sic]
70. push back /pushback
71. zero-sum
72. man up
73. iconic
74. Greatest Generation
75. Tea Party

Uncommon Commentary #218: Rot at the (Grass) Root

The "occupiers" of Wall Street, and their counterparts elsewhere, are not average folk in financial straits; they are far-leftists who would overthrow the US government if they could.  If you don't believe me, ask them: the organizer of the protest has proclaimed that "this is the beginning of revolution" and that "this is revolution, not reform"; their means of purveying pinko printed propaganda, a pseudo-newspaper titled "The Occupied Wall Street Journal," blazes the headline "THE REVOLUTION BEGINS AT HOME."  If this is a "grass-roots" movement—ironically, the word "radical" derives from the Latin for "root"—it deserves to be uprooted.

Uncommon Commentary #217: Perry "A"? On Immigration, He Deserves a "C"

Governor Perry would probably make an above-average president (perhaps even as good a president as anyone can be under our political system), but his position on illegal immigration is troubling, and for more than one reason.  The first reason is simply that his stated opinions on this subject are erroneous: he (objecting that what we need are "boots on the ground," as if the deployment of guards and of agents were an alternative rather than a complement to the erection of a stationary defense) opposes a border fence as "idiocy," and he signed into law a program that reduces tuition for students who are children of undocumented aliens, thereby giving Mexicans yet more incentive to cross the Rio Grande illicitly.  The second reason is his possible motivation for this position: the fact that Texas has one of the highest Hispanic populations of any State makes it hard to avoid the suspicion that he is sacrificing border security and cultural cohesion to appease that segment of the electorate.  Anyone who's going to be chief executive of this country not only needs to be in the right; he also must be willing to oppose the majority of the people when they are in the wrong.